Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:23:48 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.3 to 11.1 upgrade Message-ID: <174E9212-6268-4EB2-B64A-2BE8A0F1865D@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <59495BF7.7000106@quip.cz> References: <20170620133827.GA38239@knossos> <1c12b097-41f6-3ac2-8461-0f2f1be0cd88@sorbs.net> <20170620151234.GA71223@knossos> <59495BF7.7000106@quip.cz>
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> On 20 June 2017, at 10:31, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > > Zoran Kolic wrote on 2017/06/20 17:12: >>> Generally (and previously) the advice is to go via the next major version so >>> you should go: >>> >>> 9.3 -> 10.x -> 11.x not 9.3 -> 11.x >> >> Exactelly what I want to avoid. >> People successfuly upgraded, without branch 10. > > In the past I did 8.4 to 10.3, but not by freebsd-update. We are using make installkernel + make installworld method. 9.3 to 11.1 can work similarly. > > Miroslav Lachman I did 9.3 to 11.0 using freebsd-update. I had no choice since 10.x would not boot on my system. 9 and 11 boot just fine. It worked, but I had to patch freebsd-update to get there. I don't find it anymore, but it did involve adding a comma in a long string. It should still be available in the archives.
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